What is Good Web Hosting?

Nov 11
16:39

2008

Jame Betchley

Jame Betchley

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Good webhosting can be a hard thing to spot with all the offers out there. As the price of running a webhosting company has dropped due in part to the falling technology prices, the amount of webhosting companies offering deals which all sound pretty similar has rocketed. So how do you sort the webhosting chaff from the weeds?

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Good webhosting can be a hard thing to spot with all the offers out there. As the price of running a webhosting company has dropped due in part to the falling technology prices,What is Good Web Hosting? Articles the amount of webhosting companies offering deals which all sound pretty similar has rocketed.

So how do you sort the webhosting chaff from the weeds?

Due to the similarity between most deals on offer, the number 1 must have is good, 24/7 customer support - in order to have this a webhost will have to be well established and be running a well organised webhosting business. It is preferable for the support staff to be based at the server farm and essential that they are well trained in server management – it is a good idea to telephone the customer support line of any potential webhost to get a feel for their level of knowledge, you can also ask them about their company infrastructure.

The next vital requirement is a good connection, i.e. sufficient bandwidth, this affects the download speed of your website, a good way to check this is to see how fast their site loads in your browser, especially at peak times such as when people are just getting home from work. A good host will have connection redundancy i.e. more than one connection, you can ask about this when you speak to their customer support.

The next factor you need to consider is their published uptime, if a webhosting provider has a published uptime of 99% it may sound pretty good, until you realise that over the course of one month equals 7.2hrs or 3.6 days per year – that’s 3days 14 ½ hours that you are not making money. It is therefore imperative that you choose a webhosting company, which has a 99.99% uptime guarantee.

There are many other factors to consider when deciding upon a webhosting company, such as the type of hosting required, amount of disk space, data transfer and email aliases that you need, but most hosts provide a range of packages to suit all requirements – the important point to note that is a long as you have good customer support, a fast connection and a reliable webhost you can’t go too far wrong, the rest is up to you, further information can be found at WhicDomainHost.